so, if you hadn’t already heard, brand new and reel big fish are playing at my school on 4/20. and, if you hadn’t already heard, i’m like ridiculously in love with both of those bands. i have all the brand new albums, and all but one rbf album. so i made two ideal, but unlikely, setlists. i say unlikely because my favorite brand new album is “your favorite weapon,” which was their first. from what i’ve heard, they really only play one song from that album (soco amaretto lime). but you know.

BRAND NEW
1. mix tape
2. the quiet things that no one ever knows
3. jude law and a semester abroad
4. okay, i believe you, but my tommy gun don’t
5. secondary
6. seventy times seven
7. sic transit gloria… glory fades
8. degausser
9. tautou
10. magazines
11. play crack the sky
12. the shower scene
13. jaws theme swimming
14. logan to government center
15. last chance to lose your keys

REEL BIG FISH
1. where have you been
2. everything sucks
3. i want your girlfriend to be my girlfriend
4. cannibal
5. a little doubt goes a long way
6. s.r.
7. why do all girls think they’re fat
8. trendy
9. party down
10. my imaginary friend
11. sell out
12. don’t start a band
13. turn the radio off
14. your guts (i hate ‘em)
15. story of my life

hey, guys, can you do me a favor? i entered a banner in this hewlett packard graphic design contest, could you vote for me? you don’t have to register or anything, just click “VOTE!”

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Drinks manufacturer Dr Pepper have announced they will give a free can of the soft drink to every American – except former guitarists Slash and Buckethead – if Guns N Roses release ‘Chinese Democracy’ this year.

i’m having a really bad day. no, week. i feel like a failure and that really sucks. i think college and life have finally caught up to me all at the same time. i don’t really want to go into any more detail than that, but that’s why i haven’t been posting that much recently. i wish i had something to look forward to.

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ETA: my mom made my day much better just now — thanks for calling me mom : )

yesterday i misjudged where a wall was a accidentally ran into it.

today i got asked five billion times why my face looks like this:

( megan recommended i tell people i got in a barfight, because saying, “oh, i ran into a wall,” sounds really lame. and it is. )

posted this on ourbedrooms, saucydwellings, and iheartmyroom, so i thought i’d post it over here too : )

i currently don’t live at home, i’m living in a dorm at my college (SUNY geneseo). but i came home over spring break and decided i’d spruce up my room a bit.

these photos are very selective, because there are areas of the room i haven’t finished yet that i plan on working on over the summer when i’m home again. enjoy, and let me know what you think!

i apologize in advance for the photo quality. i took these at different times of the day, and it shows.

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“liz, smell my hands! they smell like paint thinner and pert shampoo!”
“lan, i would never smell your hands, not even if they smelled like… new… sunshine…”

you’re probably wondering what i’ve been doing all this spring break, as i haven’t posted since monday. the answer is nothing. i played a bit o’ scrabble (stabby quit after realizing i was winning by 200+ points), dyed my hair pinker, bought some shelving for my room, watched five billion movies, and chauffeured liz around.

things i still haven’t done that i want to do before i go back:
- go to record archive at it’s new location on rockwood
- see miss pettigrew lives for a day
- put up the cd rack i bought on ebay
- paint the trim in my room
- find some primo stop signs

so becky emailed me at noon asking if i could work at the summer camp activities fair at 6:30 tonight. i of course said yes, being the very dependable minimum wage worker that i am. but then at 2:57 she called and asked if i could work after school too, because someone had just called in sick. keep in mind that after school starts at 3:00. well i of course said yes (since all i was doing was packaging some ebay stuff and bumming around).

after school was super fun, and the kids were pretty well-behaved. i was in the homework room for most of the afternoon, which is not as awesome as the gym, but it’s generally less crazy down there (definitely a good thing). plus it helped me brush up on my 8s times tables.

the summer camp fair was all right. i set up a table with a bunch of brighton rec. flyers and brochures and stuff, and then answered five billion questions from parents. but it wasn’t too bad. i got to see a lot of kids i haven’t seen in awhile, who by the end of the night had spent most of the time standing around my table telling me the randomest things. kids are insane.

i think i’m really good at daydreaming. today i spent 3+ hours on ebay and other such sites, drooling as i assembled a kick-ass list of things i would need if i was to have a comfortable computering experience here in my room (oh, did i mention i’m on spring break?!).

1. an apple cinema display. 20″ would suffice. because 13″ just don’t cut it for me, or my eyes.

2. a wireless keyboard (i already have a mouse). and no, i do not care that there is no number pad. i touch type, i have no need for a number pad.

3. some sort of macbook dock. to make things easier. (this photo is of a bookendz docking station.)

lucky me, i already have a few necessary components of this elaborate scheme: a computer (a 13″ macbook, to be precise), a wireless mighty mouse that isn’t mighty anymore, and some awesome speakers. so i’m halfway there (not).

barnabas gikonyo is my chem lecture professor. he’s awesome, and he ends every email with “stay happy, you have incredible value!” plus he told us on the first day to call him barnabas if we were good and professor gikonyo if we were bad. lol.

barnabas: i have a riddle for you. to eat me, you throw away the outside and cook the inside. then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. what am i?
numerous people: corn on the cob!
barnabas: okay, here’s another one. the 22nd and the 24th presidents had the same mother and father, but they were not brothers. how can this be?
class: *silence*
lanni: they were the same man — grover cleveland!

well that was embarrassing. i’ve never had an entire lecture hall stare at me before. well, for a reason other than the fact that my hair is pink.